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. 2020 Jul;81(1):147-178.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.018. Epub 2020 Mar 21.

Wuhan and Hubei COVID-19 mortality analysis reveals the critical role of timely supply of medical resources

Zuqin Zhang  1 , Wei Yao  1 , Yan Wang  1 , Cheng Long  2 , Xinmiao Fu  3
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Wuhan and Hubei COVID-19 mortality analysis reveals the critical role of timely supply of medical resources

Zuqin Zhang et al. J Infect. 2020 Jul.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Fitting the COVID-19 mortality and recovery rates with exponential decay and growth functions, respectively and timely supply of medical resources. (A, B) Mortality rate (panel A) and recovery rate (panel B) for COVID-19 in China over time and by location, with exponential decay- and growth-based regression analyses being performed, respectively (as shown by colored solid lines). Parameters from the regression analyses are shown in Table S1, with R2 being shown here. (C) Numbers of the aided health workers in Hubei over time. Ratio of the aided health workers to patients was also plotted (note: most of the aided health workers are working in Wuhan; refer to Table S3). (D) Numbers of the remaining confirmed cases of COVID-19, and acute care beds, makeshift beds from Fangcang hospitals and total beds in Wuhan over time. Ratio of beds to patients was also plotted. Here the data of newly supplied beds in Hubei are not available and thus the data for Wuhan were analyzed.
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